Here and Now and Sounding Good!

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Here and Now and Sounding Good!
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Studio album by
Released1966
Recorded23 and 25 September 1966
Genre Jazz
Label Mercury Records 20093 MCL [1]
Dick Morrissey chronology
Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's
(1965)
Here and Now and Sounding Good!
(1966)

Here and Now and Sounding Good!, released in 1966, was the sixth Dick Morrissey Quartet recording. The tracks included were a tribute to Dick Morrissey's friends and fellow British jazz musicians.

Contents

It was re-released as a CD in 2007. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Off the Wagon" (Tubby Hayes)
  2. "Corpus" (Ian Hamer)
  3. "Don't Fall Over the Bridge" (Tubby Hayes)
  4. "Sunday Lunch" (Dick Morrissey)
  5. "Little Miss Sadly" (Stan Tracey)
  6. "El Schtuck" (Harry South)

Personnel

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References

  1. Morrissey Quartet", April 1967. The Gramophone , Volume 4, 1967, p. 554. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  2. "Dick Morrissey-Here & Now & Sounding Good". Allmusic. Retrieved 16 May 2022.